Word: witches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occurred a sordid sex murder involving two red women. Into the home of Henri Marchand, artist for the Buffalo Natural History Museum, had walked Nancy Bowen, 66-year-old Cayuga Indian from the nearby Cattaraugus Reservation. She had confronted Mrs. Marchand, small, slight, with a question: "Are you a witch?" Jestingly Mrs. Marchand replied: "Yes." Thereupon Nancy Bowen beat her down with a 10? hammer, stuffed chloroform-soaked paper down her throat, left her dead...
...toothless, a consumptive whom doctors have given two years to live. She had been Marchand's model for Indian pictures for the museum. He had seduced her, continued his relations with her. She loved him. She had told Nancy Bowen on the reservation that Mrs. Marchand was a witch, that she was responsible for the death of Charley ("Sassafras") Bowen, Nancy's husband. Nancy Bowen went to the Marchand house, committed the crime which Lila Jimerson thought would give her Artist Marchand for her husband...
...have been taken to Engelbert Humperdinck's opera know that he makes his entrance dancing a jig, brandishing a bottle. Because of him, Hansel and Gretel are raggedy, hard-working children who must search the woods for strawberries, thus falling into the clutches of a horrid old witch who comes near to eating them...